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Sep 02 2008
Amy Goodman & 2 DN! Producers Arrested at RNC Protest
By MWC NEWS   

More than 280 people were arrested here in St. Paul Monday, the opening day of the Republican National Convention. Among them were several journalists covering the protests in the streets, including three of us at Democracy Now! Amy was detained trying to question police officers about the arrests of Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar.

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Tags:  Amy Goodman RNC Protest Democracy Now! Nicole Salazar Sharif Abdel Kouddous
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Aug 21 2008
Corporal Punishment of Children in US Public Schools
By MWC NEWS   

Abusive, Discriminatory Punishment Undermines Education

More than 200,000 US public school students were punished by beatings during the 2006-2007 school year, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a joint report released today. In the 13 states that corporally punished more than 1,000 students per year, African-American girls were twice as likely to be beaten as their white counterparts.


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Tags:  Education Corporal Punishment US Public Schools
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Aug 19 2008
Chewing the Buddha: Bush at the Olympics
By Greg Palast   

Lhasa, Tibet - China's secret police are just terrible at keeping themselves secret.
 
The detective, dressed in her business suit and pumps appropriate to urban Lhasa, did not expect to be trailing my wife and me up the steep hillside to a monastery 15,000 feet up an ice-crusted ridge. Even at 200 yards behind us, I could see her shivering in the thin, frozen air, trying, absurdly, to look like just another hiker on the barren slope.

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Aug 16 2008
Olympics and Globalization of Police State
By MWC NEWS   

Naomi Klein and Christian Parenti on How Beijing Olympics Highlight Globalization of Police State, Inequality

The equipment and integrated security systems used to detain Olympic protesters will remain long after the Olympics, to be used, many fear, on China’s own population. And some of the biggest beneficiaries of this surveillance boom are US hedge funds and corporations, including Cisco, General Electric and Google.

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Tags:  Naomi Klein Christian Parenti Olympics Globalization Police State
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Aug 05 2008
American Foreign Policy Brought to You by China
By MWC NEWS   
Advisers to Obama, McCain Tied to US Multinationals that Profit from Beijing

President Bush is heading to China this week, where he will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summer Olympics on Friday. The Games' presence in Beijing have helped spotlight opposition to China on a number of policies, including its repression of the Tibetan independence movement, its support for the Sudanese government in Darfur and its crackdown on dissidents and civil liberties at home.

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Tags:  Ken Silverstein American Foreign Policy US Multinationals Beijing
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